We appreciate the enormous support that our ABestWeb community has experienced over the many years it has served its members and sponsors. We have decided to exit this business and have placed the property up for sale and we are actively entertaining interest.

In the meantime, community members will be able to read but not post to ABestWeb beginning on Jan. 18.

We want to thank you for your numerous contributions and your ongoing support. If you have any questions, please let us know.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Then you didn't see the MSN bots at the end of May..... THEY worked hard!!!! My sites BETTER be in the new directory with all the sucking up of bandwidth they did!!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm glad this was brought up... MSN has spidered my sites very heavy both May and June -3-4 times more (deeper?) than any other SE Bot. But I still can't find but one (1) outdated page - when I do a MSN search. None of my index pages are listed.

Is MSN waiting to launch a new index update soon? I thought I read somewhere that July was suppose to be some big update deal of some kind.

I've found Yahoo to be pretty fast both for new pages and new sites on non-PFI listings. About 4-6 weeks on average. I've no idea of their update schedule though. It seems to be that they add free pages every couple of days but I wouldn't put my house on it.

I'm relatively new, so please bear with me. I notice a lot of folks refer to their sites when discussing this wacky game of ours.

What's the etiquitte on ABW? Do we not give out our specific URLs because we don't want to be copied? Is it akin to keeping our cards close to our chests? I get darn curious sometimes when I hear people talk about their projects and the ups and the downs - and wish I could see some of these sites for myself.

I have lots of ideas of my own that I'm developing (which will be appearing soon in a site critique thread near you), but I wonder - are we being modest or are we protecting our intellectual property and respective niches?

Just go shopping and you'll see all the examples you could ask for. If when shopping you don't see an affiliates site they weren't worth looking at. The real sign of a good affiliate site is the one that gets your business.